Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-05-05

Miss Elizabeth Ballart, a Christian girl, re-
Gently joined the Jewish church in New York
city in order to marry her Hebrew lover.
While the price of coal is rising there is
some small comfort in the promise that there
WILDE an abundance Of ice next summer.
The mercury in Dakota last week reached
sixty degrees below zero. Dakota doubtless
wants to come into the Union in order to get
warm.
A young man drinking too much need not
be warned to remember his head In the morn
Ing. His head will be so big that he will not
forget it.
A negro stole bible in Baltimore, Md, and
pawned 1t for Is cents, with which he bought
three glasses of beer. He is now In jail for
six months.
The present style of cat devotes so much
time to sleep and counting that the crop OF
rats in this country has increased 81 per cent
in ten years.
An old Maine lobstcrman estimates the
number Of Holsters caught on that coast the
past year at %, 100000, the smallest catch for
twenty years.
The new courthouse at Los Angeles, Cal,
Is to be located on a high hill near the center
Of the city, and it will be an imposing editice.
1t will cost S35o,0J0.
The Freemasons of Maine propose to have
banquet on the Goth of March next to cele
brate the 125th anniversary of the introduction
Of Masonry in that state.
son. dear, wish something would hap
penr' is what the girl said to the fellow who
coll cd hnr for tbran vii
posing. He took the hint and didn't go there
again.
In the county clerks office at San Francisco,
Cal, is posted up the following notice: Lady
applicants for posito 5 will please weep in the
ante room, as the clerk suffers greatly from
damp feet
Hes beautiful dog, Miss Tuxedo; but
what is the matter with his" Ssh! lin
a delicate Whisper He got run over by a
coupe, but We never speak OF 1t, don't you
know-the poor fellow is SO sensitive"
resident of Palatka Fla, has invented a
sewingmachine that promises to do great
things The attachment consists of Il number
of wires so arranged that scraps of cloth are
sewed on base in a substantial manner, aud
rugs, trimmings, lambrcquins, etc, can be
made very rayidly.
In the new arm and navy hospital, recent
ly opened at Hot Springs, Ark. are accommo
dations for eighteen officers aud sixt -four
enlisted men. The room is divided between
applicants from the naval and military ser
vice and the marine corps, aud can be in
creased when necessary.
The greatest part of the cultivated area Of
China is devoted to the production of food
There are no focks or herds, and the areas de
voted to cotton and mu berry are very small
compared to the extent of the empire. OF tn"
25O, 600, 600 Of population, three ifths live on
rice and the rest on small millet and wheat.
The monument marking the boundary be.
tween the United States and Lower CalifOrni
has long been carved and hacked and chiseled
by people. Within the last few months it has
suffered aud is fast being reduced by relic
hunters and people anxious to have their
names seen to a shapeless and unsightly mass
Of stone.
Publicity leads to prudence, while darkness
is always provocative of crime. The more
streets are deprived OF electric lights the
greater becomes the supply of improper
houses occupied by impro Ter women. The
more publicity you give to the doings Of Town
Boards the greater will be their supply OF In
tegrity and good sense.
In northeastern Maine, few days ago, a
woOdman was chopping wool, when he cut a
big Ssh In his boot. Thinking he had also
cut his foot, he sat down and shouted until
assistance arrived and was then carried to his
house. When he got there his boot and
stocking We're cut from his foot, when it wa
found that the foot was not cut enough tc
draw blood.
The Philadelphia bookseller says: Limp
leather binding is used largely in devotional
books, closing. tightly and shutting them in as
if slipped into leather bag. 1t is looked up
on as new device, when In fact 1t is arctic OF
the parchment age. The parchment rolls
were put in covering, drawn like purse
string, carried by the owner or attached to hi'
girdle. 1t was the ''book-bag' sometimes
seen in the old cuts, held by the string, as the
devout owner pursued her way to public wor
ship.
Men and women are inclined to evil as
sparks fly upward. Rakes and wantons tax
TO their neighbours wives and husbands. The
good soon learn to become bad, the bad worse.
Lady Campbell, Capt. Shaw and the Duke o!
Marlboro will give momentum to an immoral
ity which will make the good men OF the
future weep for "Rachael and her children"
London and her female women. her Dukeswitl
night-keys, AMI her knights keyed to the sug
gestions of lacivious lutes and all that sort Of
thing.
Seal-fshing is In decline In Newfoundland.
Owing to the adaptation OF petroleum to uses
for which sealoil has hitherto been considered
indispensable, the price OF that article has
fallen from sl65 to $40 a ton. Cheap vege-
table oils also compete with it. The steamer;
engaged In the fishery are likely to be with
drawn and sailing vessels substituted, and II
Is expected that the fishery, as regards
steamers, will eventually fall into the hand;
OF Scotch fishermen, who will combine 1t with
the summer whale fishery.
A citizen of Kingston, N. Y, who is unfor
tunate enough to be the husband of a woman
who owns all the money in the possession o
the pair, adopted a novel scheme the othel
day to make a raise OF a small sum. II,
went TO a hat store, secured So hat, and ar
ranged with the merchant to bring in biz
wife 10 pay for it, when t merchant was Il
charge 81 and pa, him the difference. Tn,
man brought his wife, who, after admirin.
| ing him in his hat, reluctantly paid the 5.
and the couple left Shortly afterwari th,
man returned, got tho 81, and departed
happy
Washington diplcmales are said TO keel
! from using any of their annual salaries by &c
| casionally selling out their furniture ant
| wines which they are allowed import FREE
Of dut,. One minister says he has held tw,
auctions since he has been In Washington
! and bis profits were enough to pay his hous
\ rent for year each time. Whenever tn
ministers, or some Of them, at least impor
their wines they bring over enough TO suppl
| them until the go again, and furnish small
store besides The d spose OF the residue a
! auction at the eud Of the season, and max
! enough to pay for the whole outfit.